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According to PLS, Inc., a Houston-based oil and gas research firm, the oil and gas industry raised quite a bit of money in 2016 despite featuring almost 115 bankruptcies over the last two (2) years.

PLS compiled data reviewing the capital markets activity for 2016 according to a news release. Some of the more notable figures included the $186 billion the oil and gas industry raised through U.S. public offerings across 346 bond and equity deals. The $186 billion raised was actually $10 billion less than what was raised in 2015, according to PLS.

According to PLS, banks obtained an aggregate of $2.3 billion in fees on the money raised in 2016. PLS also listed the top-10 banks for U.S. energy equity deals in 2016. Among others, notable inclusions in that list were Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Credit Suisse, RBC Capital Markets, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo.

Linn Energy exited its chapter 11 bankruptcy leaving many shareholders with nothing but a worthless piece of paper.

Linn Energy is an oil and gas master limited partnership (“MLP”) founded in 2003. The company went public just three (3) years later in 2006, raising approximately $261 million.

Linn Energy was once the darling of the oil and gas industry, reaching peaks of $40 per share in late 2012. The company went on an acquisition spree, including Berry Petroleum for $4.3 billion at the height of the oil boom in 2013. Unfortunately, the oil boom didn’t last, and the debt Linn Energy took on was too large to support when the price of oil began to plunge in June 2014.